Cookie Policy

Why are cookies essential to how customers use the SWAPZ.co.uk Website?

This website, along with most other major websites, uses cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to the cookie file on your computer's hard disk. Cookies enable users to navigate around websites and (where appropriate) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the Site and help us improve the user experience. Without cookies enabled we cannot guarantee that the website and your experience whilst visiting are as we intended it to be. None of the cookies used on our websites collect personally identifiable information about you.

At Swapz we use cookies in the following ways:

To remember you when you are logged so that we can return search results, allow you to access swapz mail to see messages, proposals, shows of interest and other information central to the swapping process. Cookies also enable you to maintain a friends list and a block list within the swapz website.

WITHOUT COOKIES ENABLED YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE ANY FEATURE WITHIN THE SWAPZ SITE THAT DELIVERS INFORMATION OR SERVICES SPECIFICALLY BASED ON YOUR PRESET PREFERENCES OR SEARCHES.

To track how visitors reach our site and the path they take through it to help us improve our service to you. For example, we use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. Find our more about how these cookies are used on the Google Privacy site.

To monitor and manage our Website traffic.

To understand how our advertising campaigns and promotions within the Swapz website are working to improve our site design, offers and promotions. None of the cookies used on our website collect personally identifiable information about you.

Two types of cookies are used on this website:

Session Cookies. These are temporary cookies, which only exist in the period you access the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after accessing the website). Session cookies help the Swapz website remember what you chose on the previous page, therefore avoiding having to re-enter information. On our website, these cookies do not contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you.

Persistent Cookies. These are cookies, which remain on your device after you have visited our website. These cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor (by storing a randomly generated number). The length of time a cookie will remain on your device will depend on the type of cookie. On our website, these cookies do not contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you.

How to control and delete cookies:

Swapz will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device you will need to refer to your handset manual.